E NGLISH Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik word inussuk means cairn or directly The piece of art is inspired by avittat translated “something that looks like Nuuk Kunstmuseum // Nuuk Art Museum human beings”. A cairn directs us on our way in the mountains or on the Kissarneqqortuunnguaq 5 fjord. 3900 Nuuk The three columns are twisting and Greenland leaning against each other united at – the Greenlandic sealskin embroide­ ART WALK (+299)32 77 33 the top. They columns symbolize the ry where tiny bits of dyed sealskin [email protected] 9. Exhibition // Katuaq people of Greenland in North, East are sewn into a pattern on kamiks nuukkunstmuseum.com Follow the wall decoration. The aisle and West – joining and supporting and other pieces of needlework. DISCOVER NUUK in the back of the culture house is 14. The Mother of The Sea – Colonial each other. When the sun is shining the pat­ used for changing exhibitions. Each 11. ”Kayak family” – infront of harbour It is made of stone, cobber and tern gleams. THROUGH Katuaq By Christian ”Nuunu” Rosing (B. Winter Opening Hours summer the students from the Nuuk concrete. The stones in the sculpture Thue Christiansen – the artist behind Art School exhibits their art works. By Isle Hessner (B. 1962) 1944) Thursday 13­19 are from all over Greenland. the pattern – is also the artist behind THE ART A group of three standing kayaks are The Mother of the Sea lives at the the design of the Greenlandic flag. Friday – Sunday 13­17 found by the entrance to Katuaq. bottom of the sea. She rules over all IN THE CITY (or by appointment) Sculptures you can sit in or play on the marine animals. If man is misbe­ – a meeting point or a place to rest. having, the mischievousness and dirt Summer Opening Hours Isle Hessner works with iron, tree 13. Kaassassuk – by the Government gets tangled into her hair and that Tuesday – Sunday 13­17 and concrete in her sculptures. Mate­ of Greenland way, she keeps the animals from Thursday 13­19 rials often used to build buildings By Simon Kristoffersen (1933-90) man to hunt or fish. Then man must Kaassassuk is the name of a legend (or by appointment) with. Here the iron and the concrete send a shaman on the long and dan­ offer a windbreak – a shelter against about an orphan boy called Kaassas­ gerous journey down to the bottom 16. Ravens – Apartment buildings 18. A falcon in the court yard of the snow and wind. At the same time the suk. He is humiliated and bullied in of the sea to comb and clean the mo­ on Tuapannguit City Hall 10. Wall decoration – inside Katuaq snow and wind works with the iron, his settlement until he meets the ther of the sea’s hair and sooth her, By Rikke Diemer In the courtyard of the city hall a By Buuti Pedersen (B. 1955) giving it its brownish patina. Lord of Power. in order to keep the settlement from At the top of the apartment towers sculpture hides in the bushes in the It is said in a Greenlandic myth that a In this sculpture Simon Kristoffer­ starving. Newly combed and clean, the ravens are flying from house to corner. The head of a falcon stands man fell in love with his sister. When sen shows Kaassassuk’s encounter the Mother of the Sea has once again house. The many ravens playing over on a concrete block with big round she found out, she took a bit of turf, with the Lord of Power. They look in released the animals.Sometimes the the rooftops belong to the winters in eyes you can cover with your hands, dipped it in the train oil, set it on fire separate directions. In the legend sculpture is on land, other times in Nuuk, says the artist Rikke Diemer with a beak you can stroke and a head and ran away. The brother ran after Kaassassuk is flung by the Lord of water – depending on the tide. about the ravens on the apartment you can pad. his sister, but didn’t manage to light Power until he gets (almost) uncon­ towers. his turf. The brother is still chasing querable powers. 15. Inussuk The ravens first flight was on the his sister – running over the sky he The artist has made the Lord of By Niels Motzfeldt 2009 house end of Block Q – a block of has become the moon, eternally try­ 12. Stones – between Nuuk Center Power heavy, monumental and force­ Inussuk the sculpture is called stan­ concrete apartments out of three and ing to get to his sister, the sun. To­ and The Culture House Katuaq ful without a neck, with dilated no­ ding with a view to the colonial har­ was torn down and replaced by these gether, the sun and the moon con­ By Peter ”Kujooq” Kristiansen strils, big round eyes with no pupils bour and the fjord. The Greenlandic towers in 2011. With these seven trol the tide and the seasons chan­ Across the café Pascucci, just between and with legs ending suddenly like towers the ravens began flying again. 19. Nuuk Art Museum ging. Katuaq and Nuuk Center, there is an elephant. Place yourself at a little distance of Across the road from the lady with Above the information and ticket something emerging from the ground After being flung by the Lord of the first tower then all the ravens on the polar bear on Block 10 you will sale counter in the cultural center Ka­ – round black polished stones appear Power, Kaassassuk is going out into the 7 towers melt together to an un­ find Nuuk Art Museum. The museum tuaq, this myth about the sun and in the grass. the world, to learn how to use his broken motive of ravens taking off, is founded on the collection of Svend the moon is cast in the concrete wall. Looking closer at the different sto­ powers. flying and landing. and Helene Junge. The building was The man as the moon is pursuing the nes lying around in the grass you The sculpture was made in 1973 in given to the municipality in 2005 sun, the woman, across the curved will find a fish and other animals car­ The Royal Danish Academy of Art, 17. Pattern on the front of the City along with the large art collection. white wall with stars and outlines of ved in the stones. and was placed in front of the Rigs­ Hall The museum is the biggest collection landscapes as the scenery, but al­ They are there, but are very easy to hospitalet (a specialised hospital) in By Thue Christiansen (B. 1940) of art open to the public in Green­ ways with the same distance be­ miss if you neglect to stop and look Copenhagen until 1987, at which On the front of the city hall you will land, and houses both historic and © Nuuk Art Museum // Photo: Nuuk Art Museum, Rebecca Gustafsson, Mads Pihl // Layout: tita.gl tween them. down. point it was moved to Nuuk. find a pattern, which is easy to miss. contemporary Greenlandic art. HANS EGEDESVEJ GER TRUD RASKVEJ QAANNIVIIT JOHN MØLLERIP AQQ. 14 H. J. RINKSVEJ 13 INSPEKTØRBAKKEN case. Move close to the windows to HANS EGEDESVEJ get a good look at the redfish on COLONIAL is a larger window providing a better HARBOUR their way. GOVERNMENT NUUK view of the columns. INTALEEQQAP AQQUTAA OF GREENLAND CENTER As an art school student in the NUUK Anne­Birthe Hove decorated the 1990s Camilla Nielsen saw this red ART MUSEUM hotel lobby and bar in 2001. Three BØRNEHJEMSVEJ deep-sea fish with its round eyes – H. J. RINKSVEJ 19 large copper plates called “Night often popped out – at the local fish POLICE Ravens” (Natteravne – which in Da­ 1. Paintings on the gables of block market, which was a neighbor to the 15 12 TUUNNGUAQ nish is an expression for those who 10 and 5 Art School in Nuuk. Since then, she NATIONAL KATUAQ like to stay up at night) and 14 prints KUUSSUAQ H. J. RINKSVEJ Guido Van Helten and Stéfan has used the red fish as a motive with MUSEUM 11 on canvas of the mountain Sermitsiaq IMANEQ Baldursson. 2014 front of a dotted wall. Dots which a line repeatedly, each time trying to 16 10 KISSARNEQQOR were on the walls. Today these pieces . H. LUNDSTEENSVEJ 1 P The paintings on the house ends of gathers and scatters. The wall is simplify it – to shape the lines – until 9 AQQUSINERSUAQ 5. Amisut of art can be seen at Nuuk Art Mu­ the concrete apartments are like made of zinc and the dots painted the redfish becomes indis tinguish- 8 By Naja Rosing-Asvid (B. 1966) seum. A huge sand blown glass KUUSSUAQ7 Street Art. The art phenomenon con­ with car paint. The dots are inspired ab le. Then she returns to the original SERMERSOOQ HANS EGEDESVEJ 2009 plate, today lost, separated the room. CITY HALL 1 quers and decorates public spaces of by traditional women’s tattoos. shape and starts over. Each redfish is Seeing a group of seals swimming at the cities without asking for permis­ While the artist made the dots, he different, but the artist uses acrylic sea level is called “amisut” in Green­ 8. Paintings – inside Katuaq TUAPANNGUIT 18 sion. This Street Art was supported by read the names from a Greenlandic paint, water colour and ink to make landic. The seals wind and unwind in By Aage Gitz-Johansen (1897-1997) ILIVINNGUAQ 5 KUUSSUAQ the municipality, but the initiative phone book aloud.